AI Directory

AI Environmental Impact Directory

Explore the environmental impact of 152 AI models. Browse the catalog or switch to analytical views to compare energy, carbon, and water usage.

152
Models tracked
5
Categories
0.015 Wh
Most efficient
2,400 Wh
Most intensive

Text / Chat

94
Google Estimated
Gemini Nano
0.01Wh
Very Low
~1 second of TV
#1 of 152
0.00 g CO₂ 0.00 mL
Google Estimated
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
0.06Wh
Very Low
~1 second of TV
#2 of 152
0.01 g CO₂ 0.07 mL
Google Popular Estimated
Gemini 2.0 Flash
0.08Wh
Very Low
~1 second of TV
#3 of 152
0.01 g CO₂ 0.09 mL
Google Estimated
Gemma 3 4B
0.08Wh
Very Low
~1 second of TV
#4 of 152
0.03 g CO₂ 0.30 mL
Microsoft Estimated
Phi-4 Mini
0.08Wh
Very Low
~1 second of TV
#5 of 152
0.03 g CO₂ 0.30 mL
Google Estimated
Gemini 1.5 Flash
0.10Wh
Very Low
~half a Google search
#6 of 152
0.01 g CO₂ 0.11 mL
OpenAI Popular Estimated
GPT-4o Mini
0.14Wh
Low
~half a Google search
#8 of 152
0.06 g CO₂ 0.50 mL
Amazon Estimated
Amazon Nova Micro
0.15Wh
Low
~half a Google search
#9 of 152
0.07 g CO₂ 0.33 mL
Google Popular Estimated
Gemini 3 Flash
0.15Wh
Low
~half a Google search
#10 of 152
0.02 g CO₂ 0.16 mL
OpenAI Popular Estimated
GPT-4.1 Mini
0.18Wh
Low
~half a Google search
#11 of 152
0.08 g CO₂ 0.65 mL
Meta Peer-reviewed
LLaMA 3.2 1B
0.22Wh
Low
~half a Google search
#12 of 152
0.08 g CO₂ 1 mL
Google Verified
Gemini 1.5 Pro
0.24Wh
Low
~half a Google search
#13 of 152
0.03 g CO₂ 0.26 mL
Mistral AI Estimated
Mistral 7B
0.25Wh
Low
~half a Google search
#14 of 152
0.16 g CO₂ 1 mL
Google Estimated
Gemma 3 12B
0.25Wh
Low
~half a Google search
#15 of 152
0.10 g CO₂ 0.90 mL
OpenAI Peer-reviewed
GPT-4.1 Nano
0.27Wh
Low
~half a Google search
#16 of 152
0.12 g CO₂ 2 mL
Meta Estimated
LLaMA 3.1 8B
0.30Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#17 of 152
0.12 g CO₂ 1 mL
Amazon Estimated
Amazon Nova Lite
0.30Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#18 of 152
0.13 g CO₂ 0.65 mL
OpenAI Estimated
GPT-5.4 Nano
0.30Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#20 of 152
0.13 g CO₂ 1 mL
Google Popular Estimated
Gemini 2.5 Flash
0.35Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#21 of 152
0.05 g CO₂ 0.38 mL
Microsoft Estimated
Phi-4
0.35Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#22 of 152
0.16 g CO₂ 1 mL
Mistral AI Estimated
Mistral Small 3
0.35Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#23 of 152
0.22 g CO₂ 2 mL
OpenAI Estimated
GPT-OSS 20B
0.35Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#24 of 152
0.15 g CO₂ 1 mL
Anthropic Estimated
Claude 3 Haiku
0.40Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#25 of 152
0.14 g CO₂ 0.75 mL
Mistral AI Estimated
Mistral Small 4
0.40Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#27 of 152
0.02 g CO₂ 0.30 mL
OpenAI Popular Peer-reviewed
GPT-4o
0.43Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#28 of 152
0.19 g CO₂ 2 mL
OpenAI Popular Estimated
GPT-4.1
0.45Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#29 of 152
0.20 g CO₂ 2 mL
NVIDIA Estimated
Nemotron 3 Super
0.45Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#30 of 152
0.20 g CO₂ 2 mL
xAI Estimated
Grok 2
0.50Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#31 of 152
0.17 g CO₂ 3 mL
Perplexity Estimated
Perplexity AI
0.50Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#32 of 152
0.18 g CO₂ 0.90 mL
OpenAI Estimated
GPT-4 Turbo
0.50Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#33 of 152
0.22 g CO₂ 2 mL
Anthropic Estimated
Claude 3.5 Haiku
0.55Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#36 of 152
0.19 g CO₂ 1 mL
Alibaba Estimated
Qwen 3.5 32B
0.55Wh
Low
~1 Google search
#37 of 152
0.30 g CO₂ 2 mL
Meta Estimated
LLaMA 4 Scout
0.60Wh
Low
~charging a phone 10%
#38 of 152
0.24 g CO₂ 1 mL
Mistral AI Estimated
Mixtral 8x7B
0.60Wh
Low
~charging a phone 10%
#39 of 152
0.38 g CO₂ 3 mL
Anthropic Estimated
Claude Haiku 4.5
0.60Wh
Low
~charging a phone 10%
#41 of 152
0.21 g CO₂ 1 mL
Google Estimated
Gemma 3 27B
0.75Wh
Low
~charging a phone 10%
#42 of 152
0.30 g CO₂ 1 mL
Amazon Estimated
Amazon Nova Pro
0.80Wh
Low
~charging a phone 10%
#44 of 152
0.35 g CO₂ 2 mL
ByteDance Estimated
Doubao Pro
0.80Wh
Low
~charging a phone 10%
#45 of 152
0.44 g CO₂ 3 mL
OpenAI Popular Estimated
GPT-5 Mini
0.80Wh
Low
~charging a phone 10%
#47 of 152
0.35 g CO₂ 3 mL
Google Popular Estimated
Gemini 2.5 Pro
0.90Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#48 of 152
0.12 g CO₂ 0.97 mL
Zhipu AI Estimated
GLM-4
0.90Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#49 of 152
0.50 g CO₂ 3 mL
ByteDance Estimated
Doubao 2.0
0.90Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#50 of 152
0.50 g CO₂ 3 mL
Amazon Estimated
Amazon Nova 2 Pro
0.90Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#51 of 152
0.39 g CO₂ 2 mL
Meta Estimated
LLaMA 3.3 70B
1.0Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#52 of 152
0.40 g CO₂ 2 mL
Baidu Estimated
ERNIE Bot 4.0
1.0Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#53 of 152
0.55 g CO₂ 4 mL
AI21 Labs Estimated
Jamba 1.5 Large
1.0Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#54 of 152
0.45 g CO₂ 2 mL
OpenAI Estimated
GPT-5.4 Mini
1.0Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#56 of 152
0.44 g CO₂ 4 mL
ByteDance Estimated
Doubao Seed 2.0 Pro
1.0Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#57 of 152
0.55 g CO₂ 4 mL
Meta Peer-reviewed
LLaMA 3.1 70B
1.1Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#58 of 152
0.44 g CO₂ 2 mL
Google Popular Estimated
Gemini 3 Pro
1.1Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#59 of 152
0.14 g CO₂ 1 mL
Alibaba Estimated
Qwen 3.5 72B
1.1Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#60 of 152
0.61 g CO₂ 4 mL
Baidu Estimated
ERNIE 5.0
1.1Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#61 of 152
0.61 g CO₂ 4 mL
xAI Popular Estimated
Grok 3
1.2Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#62 of 152
0.46 g CO₂ 2 mL
Mistral AI Estimated
Mixtral 8x22B
1.2Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#63 of 152
0.76 g CO₂ 5 mL
Moonshot AI Estimated
Kimi
1.2Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#64 of 152
0.66 g CO₂ 4 mL
Zhipu AI Estimated
GLM-5
1.2Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#66 of 152
0.66 g CO₂ 4 mL
Google Estimated
Gemini 3.1 Pro
1.3Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#68 of 152
0.17 g CO₂ 1 mL
Cohere Estimated
Command A
1.3Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#69 of 152
0.46 g CO₂ 2 mL
Zhipu AI Estimated
GLM-5.1
1.3Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#70 of 152
0.72 g CO₂ 5 mL
Alibaba Estimated
Qwen 3 235B
1.4Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#71 of 152
0.77 g CO₂ 5 mL
Cohere Estimated
Command R+
1.5Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#73 of 152
0.53 g CO₂ 3 mL
OpenAI Popular Estimated
o4-mini
1.5Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#74 of 152
0.65 g CO₂ 6 mL
Mistral AI Estimated
Mistral Large 3
1.5Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#78 of 152
0.95 g CO₂ 6 mL
Moonshot AI Estimated
Kimi K2.5
1.5Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#79 of 152
0.83 g CO₂ 6 mL
Mistral AI Verified
Mistral Large 2
1.8Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#81 of 152
1.1 g CO₂ 45 mL
Meta Estimated
LLaMA 4 Maverick
1.8Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#82 of 152
0.72 g CO₂ 3 mL
Microsoft Estimated
Phi-4 Reasoning
1.8Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#83 of 152
0.79 g CO₂ 7 mL
OpenAI Estimated
GPT-OSS 120B
1.8Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 10%
#85 of 152
0.79 g CO₂ 7 mL
OpenAI Popular Estimated
o3-mini
2.0Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#86 of 152
0.90 g CO₂ 8 mL
Anthropic Popular Estimated
Claude Sonnet 4
2.5Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#88 of 152
0.88 g CO₂ 5 mL
Anthropic Popular Estimated
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2.6Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#90 of 152
0.91 g CO₂ 5 mL
Anthropic Peer-reviewed
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
2.8Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#91 of 152
0.97 g CO₂ 5 mL
OpenAI Estimated
o1-mini
3.0Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#95 of 152
1.3 g CO₂ 12 mL
Anthropic Popular Estimated
Claude Sonnet 4.6
3.0Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#96 of 152
1.1 g CO₂ 6 mL
OpenAI Popular Estimated
GPT-5
3.5Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#103 of 152
1.5 g CO₂ 13 mL
Meta Estimated
LLaMA 3.1 405B
4.0Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#106 of 152
1.6 g CO₂ 8 mL
DeepSeek Popular Peer-reviewed
DeepSeek-V3
4.2Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#108 of 152
2.3 g CO₂ 16 mL
Anthropic Estimated
Claude 3 Opus
5.0Wh
Low-Moderate
~a few phone charges
#111 of 152
1.8 g CO₂ 9 mL
OpenAI Popular Estimated
GPT-5.2
5.0Wh
Low-Moderate
~a few phone charges
#112 of 152
2.2 g CO₂ 18 mL
DeepSeek Estimated
DeepSeek-V3.1
5.0Wh
Low-Moderate
~a few phone charges
#113 of 152
2.8 g CO₂ 19 mL
Anthropic Popular Estimated
Claude Opus 4
5.5Wh
Low-Moderate
~a few phone charges
#116 of 152
1.9 g CO₂ 10 mL
OpenAI Popular Estimated
GPT-5.4
5.5Wh
Low-Moderate
~a few phone charges
#117 of 152
2.4 g CO₂ 20 mL
DeepSeek Estimated
DeepSeek-V3.2
5.5Wh
Low-Moderate
~a few phone charges
#118 of 152
3.0 g CO₂ 20 mL
Anthropic Popular Estimated
Claude Opus 4.5
5.8Wh
Low-Moderate
~a few phone charges
#119 of 152
2.0 g CO₂ 11 mL
Anthropic Popular Estimated
Claude Opus 4.6
6.5Wh
Moderate
~a few phone charges
#120 of 152
2.3 g CO₂ 12 mL
xAI Popular Estimated
Grok 4
8.0Wh
Moderate
~a few phone charges
#122 of 152
2.7 g CO₂ 15 mL
xAI Estimated
Grok 4.1
9.0Wh
Moderate
~a few phone charges
#124 of 152
3.1 g CO₂ 17 mL
xAI Estimated
Grok 4.20
10.0Wh
Moderate
~a few phone charges
#125 of 152
3.4 g CO₂ 19 mL
OpenAI Estimated
o1
15.0Wh
Moderate
~running a TV for 10 min
#126 of 152
6.5 g CO₂ 55 mL
OpenAI Popular Peer-reviewed
GPT-4.5
20.5Wh
Moderate
~running a TV for 10 min
#128 of 152
8.0 g CO₂ 80 mL
OpenAI Popular Peer-reviewed
o3 (Reasoning)
21.4Wh
Moderate
~running a TV for 10 min
#129 of 152
10.0 g CO₂ 100 mL
DeepSeek Popular Peer-reviewed
DeepSeek-R1
29.0Wh
Moderate
~running a TV for 10 min
#130 of 152
14.0 g CO₂ 150 mL
DeepSeek Estimated
DeepSeek-R1-0528
32.0Wh
Moderate
~running a TV for 10 min
#131 of 152
17.6 g CO₂ 175 mL
OpenAI Popular Estimated
o3-pro
35.0Wh
Moderate
~running a TV for 10 min
#132 of 152
15.3 g CO₂ 130 mL

Image Generation

16
Google Estimated
Imagen 3
2.5Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#89 of 152
0.33 g CO₂ 3 mL
Google Estimated
Imagen 4
2.8Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#92 of 152
0.36 g CO₂ 3 mL
Stability AI Peer-reviewed
Stable Diffusion XL
2.9Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#93 of 152
1.2 g CO₂ 5 mL
OpenAI Popular Estimated
DALL-E 3
3.0Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#94 of 152
1.2 g CO₂ 15 mL
Recraft Estimated
Recraft V4
3.0Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#98 of 152
1.2 g CO₂ 6 mL
Adobe Estimated
Adobe Firefly
3.2Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#99 of 152
1.0 g CO₂ 6 mL
Stability AI Estimated
Stable Diffusion 3.5
3.2Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#100 of 152
1.3 g CO₂ 6 mL
Ideogram Estimated
Ideogram 2.0
3.5Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#101 of 152
1.2 g CO₂ 7 mL
Leonardo AI Estimated
Leonardo AI
3.5Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#102 of 152
1.4 g CO₂ 7 mL
Black Forest Labs Estimated
Flux.1 Dev
3.8Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#104 of 152
1.5 g CO₂ 7 mL
OpenAI Estimated
GPT Image 1.5
3.8Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#105 of 152
1.7 g CO₂ 14 mL
OpenAI Popular Estimated
GPT-4o Image Generation
4.5Wh
Low-Moderate
~charging a phone 25%
#109 of 152
2.0 g CO₂ 16 mL
Black Forest Labs Estimated
Flux 2 Pro
5.0Wh
Low-Moderate
~a few phone charges
#114 of 152
2.0 g CO₂ 9 mL
Midjourney Estimated
Midjourney V8 Alpha
5.0Wh
Low-Moderate
~a few phone charges
#115 of 152
1.6 g CO₂ 9 mL
Midjourney Popular Estimated
Midjourney
7.5Wh
Moderate
~a few phone charges
#121 of 152
2.3 g CO₂ 14 mL
Midjourney Estimated
Midjourney V7
8.0Wh
Moderate
~a few phone charges
#123 of 152
2.5 g CO₂ 15 mL

Video Generation

16
Stability AI Estimated
Stable Video Diffusion
150.0Wh
High
~running a fridge for a day
#137 of 152
60.0 g CO₂ 280 mL
Luma AI Estimated
Luma Dream Machine
160.0Wh
High
~running a fridge for a day
#138 of 152
56.0 g CO₂ 296 mL
Pika Estimated
Pika
180.0Wh
High
~running a fridge for a day
#139 of 152
63.0 g CO₂ 330 mL
Runway Estimated
Runway Gen-3 Alpha
200.0Wh
High
~30 min of microwave
#140 of 152
70.0 g CO₂ 370 mL
Luma AI Estimated
Luma Ray 3
200.0Wh
High
~30 min of microwave
#141 of 152
70.0 g CO₂ 370 mL
Pika Estimated
Pika 2.5
210.0Wh
High
~30 min of microwave
#142 of 152
74.0 g CO₂ 389 mL
MiniMax Estimated
HaiLuo AI
220.0Wh
High
~30 min of microwave
#143 of 152
121.0 g CO₂ 815 mL
Kuaishou Estimated
Kling
250.0Wh
High
~30 min of microwave
#144 of 152
138.0 g CO₂ 925 mL
Runway Estimated
Runway Gen-4.5
250.0Wh
High
~30 min of microwave
#145 of 152
88.0 g CO₂ 460 mL
Kuaishou Estimated
Kling 3.0
280.0Wh
High
~30 min of microwave
#146 of 152
154.0 g CO₂ 1.03 L
ByteDance Estimated
Seedance 2.0
280.0Wh
High
~30 min of microwave
#147 of 152
154.0 g CO₂ 1.03 L
Google Estimated
Veo 2
350.0Wh
Very High
~30 min of microwave
#148 of 152
46.0 g CO₂ 380 mL
Google Estimated
Veo 3
400.0Wh
Very High
~30 min of microwave
#149 of 152
52.0 g CO₂ 430 mL
OpenAI Estimated
Sora
500.0Wh
Very High
~30 min of microwave
#150 of 152
225.0 g CO₂ 1.85 L
OpenAI Estimated
Sora 2
600.0Wh
Very High
~30 min of microwave
#151 of 152
262.0 g CO₂ 2.16 L
Google Estimated
Veo 3.1
2.40kWh
Very High
~30 min of microwave
#152 of 152
312.0 g CO₂ 2.59 L

Code Assistant

12

Music Generation

4